[MPlayer-dev-eng] Indentation style (was: [PATCH] Fix useless dependencies in the stream lib)

[Alban Bedel]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:33:11 -0400
Robert Henney <robh at rut.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:54:45PM +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:15:52 +0200
> > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > That sums it up nicely for me.  Albeu, your goal is noble, but you
> > > could instead try to convince people to go for a single consistent
> > > style.
> > 
> > I'll try nothing. I just hoped we could get a somewhat nicer work
> > environment.
> 
> The environment you seem to want for yourself may be possible without
> needing "magic comments" within the source tree.  I believe, although
> haven't investigated, that the same editor parameters can be set on a 
> per-file basis from within the ~/.*rc files for most common editors
> just as easily.  (vim may even have a way to be configured to 
> auto-remember those per-file parameters to ~/.viminfo)
> 
> if someone wants to create/maintain such an editor rc file that
> defines the desired editor parameters for each source file, that
> seems more favorable to me over the idea of littering magic comments 
> throughout the files in the source tree.  the rc file may then be
> included into anyones editor rc files who desires it.  also I would
> imagine that different magic comments would need to be added to every
> file for every editor that comes along, which would mean patching
> every source file individually. *shiver*  With an rc file, for any 
> new editor just another single rc file would need to be created.

That sound interesting, I'll look at it. But I suppose the "anti-tags"
would have the same objections, as it is in effect the same, just at
a different place.

	Albeu